0 relating to a meritocracy (= a social system in which people's success or power is related to their abilities):
The country was operating more meritocratic principles for selecting those entering the educational elite.
This idea should be absurd and insulting in any modern meritocratic society.
This is a democratic, meritocratic process.
What culture and values get adopted by a meritocratic elite?
Even on the basis of the meritocratic principles advocated by today's policy-makers, it cannot be considered as just.
Although some teams and leagues were integrated, baseball was never as democratic and meritocratic as its promoters claimed.
The problems that worried them, members of their meritocratic bureaucracies, shed light as well on modern concerns.
The power of the teetotaler's cautionary confession is thus made abundantly evident: a yeoman farmer becomes a new-style meritocratic landed gentleman.
As science appealed to a growing public, its practitioners worked harder to define themselves as a meritocratic elite.
